Thank you for contributing a legal perspective to this. Can I ask you without breaking anonymity whether you're licensed in MA? My online reading of R.O. literature seems to indicate there's some variation state-to-state.

I fully agree with your point about the hosts putting themselves at risk by trying to limit others' police contact. I raised that issue in Scott's original LJ post and I know that the hosts are engaged in discussions about how they'll respond to all the feedback there as well as in private correspondence.